Vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Linux

CVE-2008-2375

Memory leak in a certain Red Hat deployment of vsftpd before 2.0.5 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 3 and 4, when PAM is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of invalid authentication attempts within the same session, a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-5962.

EPSS: 0.037 (88.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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